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We review the developments in the past decade on holographic entanglement entropy, a subject that has garnered much attention owing to its potential to teach us about the emergence of spacetime in holography. We provide an introduction to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-28 Mukund Rangamani , Tadashi Takayanagi

Using Matrix theory, we propose a technique on how to compute the entangle- ment entropy between a supergravity probe and modes on a spherical membrane. We demonstrate that a membrane stretched between the probe and the sphere entangles…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-05 Vatche Sahakian

The concept of entanglement entropy appears in multiple contexts, from black hole physics to quantum information theory, where it measures the entanglement of quantum states. We investigate the entanglement entropy in a simple model, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Karyn Le Hur

In quantum physics, multiparticle systems are described by quantum states acting on tensor products of Hilbert spaces. This product structure leads to the distinction between product states and entangled states; moreover, one can quantify…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Lisa T. Weinbrenner , Albert Rico , Kenneth Goodenough , Xiao-Dong Yu , Otfried Gühne

We formulate a universal characterization of the many-particle quantum entanglement in the ground state of a topologically ordered two-dimensional medium with a mass gap. We consider a disk in the plane, with a smooth boundary of length L,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexei Kitaev , John Preskill

We study the possibility that black hole entropy be identified as entropy of entanglement across the horizon of the vacuum of a quantum field in the presence of the black hole. We argue that a recent proposal for computing entanglement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Roberto Emparan

In this thesis, we study aspects of entanglement theory of quantum field theories from an algebraic point of view. The main motivation is to gain insights about the general structure of the entanglement in QFT, towards a definition of an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-30 Diego Pontello

We review the conformal field theory approach to entanglement entropy. We show how to apply these methods to the calculation of the entanglement entropy of a single interval, and the generalization to different situations such as finite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-12-08 Pasquale Calabrese , John Cardy

Graphs are topological spaces that include broader objects than discretized manifolds, making them interesting playgrounds for the study of quantum phases not realized by symmetry breaking. In particular they are known to support anyons of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-18 Pramod Padmanabhan , Fumihiko Sugino

We study the entanglement entropy between a strip region with width $2R$ and its complement in strongly coupled large-$N$ conformal field theory (CFT) on $\mathbb{R}^{1,n}$ with chemical potential and angular momentum in an thermal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-13 Po-Chun Sun

Entanglement entropy first arose from attempts to understand the entropy of black holes, and is believed to play a crucial role in a complete description of quantum gravity. This thesis explores some proposed connections between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-14 Antony J. Speranza

The entanglement entropy (EE) can measure the entanglement between a spatial subregion and its complement, which provides key information about quantum states. Here, rather than focusing on specific regions, we study how the entanglement…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-21 William Witczak-Krempa

The non-factorizing nature of the Hilbert space in Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) due to gauge invariance requires a generalized definition of entanglement entropy. This work employs the framework of von Neumann algebras to investigate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-04 Muxin Han

We compute the topological entanglement entropy for a large set of lattice models in $d$-dimensions. It is well known that many such quantum systems can be constructed out of lattice gauge models. For dimensionality higher than two, there…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-22 J. P. Ibieta-Jimenez , M. Petrucci , L. N. Queiroz Xavier , P. Teotonio-Sobrinho

It is established that physical observables in local quantum field theories should be invariant under invertible field redefinitions. It is then expected that this statement should be true for the entanglement entropy and moreover that, via…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-17 M. R. Mohammadi Mozaffar , A. Mollabashi , M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari , M. H. Vahidinia

The entanglement entropy of an annulus is examined in a three-dimensional system with or without a gap. For a free massive scalar field theory, we numerically calculate the mutual information across an annulus. We also study the holographic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Yuki Nakaguchi , Tatsuma Nishioka

Recently, Bousso and Penington (BP) made a proposal for the entanglement wedge associated to a gravitating bulk region. In this paper, we derive this proposal in time-reflection symmetric settings using the gravitational path integral. To…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-27 Sami Kaya , Pratik Rath , Kyle Ritchie

Recently, several notions of entanglement in time have emerged as a novel frontier in quantum many-body physics, quantum field theory and gravity. We propose a systematic prescription to characterize temporal entanglement in relativistic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-29 Michal P. Heller , Fabio Ori , Alexandre Serantes

We use holographic techniques to calculate the first thermal correction to the entanglement entropy of a cap-like region of a CFT defined on a sphere, successfully reproducing the field theory result. Since this is an order-one correction…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-27 Stefan Leichenauer

The entanglement theory in quantum systems with internal symmetries is rich due to the spontaneous creation of entangled pairs of charge/anti-charge particles at the entangling surface. We call these pair creation operators the bi-local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-31 Keiichiro Furuya , Nima Lashkari , Shoy Ouseph